SPFL will move with the herd, isolating angry losers

We received clarity from Uefa on some important issues yesterday and not on others. Access to the Champions and Europa Leagues next season will be granted only on sporting merit. This finally nailed hopes of the Null and Void Loyal. If a league was declared void, its standings and results would not hold, so no sporting merit could be determined.

If Newco want access to the Europa League qualifiers, they need the SPFL to award a winner and second place, despite their protests. Our old pal Cognitive Dissonance must keep them awake at night.

It is clear from the Uefa statement they have listened and tried to accommodate several scenarios. Where titles are close, like Italy, where Lazio narrowed the gap on Juventus to a point, Uefa suggest a play-off system could allow chasing teams to make up the difference. AZ Alkmaar trail Ajax on goal difference but the Dutch league is expected to call a halt to the campaign as early as today. There are no truly satisfactory closures this season, least of all for Celtic, who will be denied a title winning game.

What we didn’t get was a hard deadline on when teams have to be nominated for European competitions. After discussions with Uefa, the Italian league extended this season’s Serie A to 2 August, so we know for sure the European draws cannot take place until after that date.

I expect we will see European leagues synchronise their moves; there will be no incentive for any radical undertakings. Those without rabid losers will be first to call time, the SPFL will move with the herd, as it should. Then those who called for independent investigations into why the SPFL acted the same way as the rest of Europe will look like the angry losers they are.

Trump’s latest speech displays the hallmarks of someone completely detached from reality, he might be an unwitting participant of a 2020 version of the MK ultra program. Seems as plausible to me as the alternative.

Just picked up your joke re the Donald. Brilliant and he was called out by a reporter from the Washington Post. The Donald immediately reverted to type and called the reporter a faker. At least I think he said faker.

Normally this site is very up to date with information about the Euro competitions, seedings, coefficients etc. It still shows the draw for the 1st and 2nd Champions League Qualifying rounds as 16 and 17th June.

It would take UEFA to move these dates back 6-8 weeks, to give the SPFL a cats’s chance in hell to complete fixtures behind closed doors and that would depend on the Scottish Government and the players union agreeing to play, neither of which is on the agenda at present within that timescale.

My first ever game at Celtic Park was Celtic 5 St. Mirren 0 on 7th December 1968.

Celtic 5 St. Mirren 0 on 7th March 2020 looks like being the last game I will see at Celtic Park for a very long time. 51 years and 3 months of regular (or fairly regular) attendance is an abeyance.

Celtic have played this perfectly from the outset. As the team with the most to lose there was no point in us alienating neutrals with ‘poor me’ talk. Instead, leaving it to those looking to gain something unfairly has highlighted just how out of steps the 2nd best teams in Edinburgh and Glasgow were.

We’re now in the lap of the Gods and of scientists. Football rightly takes a back seat for now, but there will come a time we will have to return and that will most likely be towards the Autumn. I don’t see fans getting access until into 2021. Tis of course represents major cashflow problems for every single club in Scotland and Celtic, whilst best able to support, need to start looking at how to maximise the income streams without fans being present.

One way could be a TV Season ticket at £ 10 per game rate, the other could be asking to retain season ticket deposit revenues in the accounts for up to a year with the likelihood of streamlining the business whilst retaining our top talent from both on and off the field on reduced salaries but with earnings ring fenced for future payment once normality returns.

A lot of hard decisions will need to be made, but the main thing here is the survival of our fans and our Club.

Their only motive now is to prevent Celtic from being crowned champions for as long as possible, perhaps even hopeful that the whole of the SFA will collapse and thereby prevent Celtic from ever being awarded the title.

What is annoying the Huns so much is the fact that all they had to do was keep pace with us after Christmas, just stay level, they didn’t even have to be better than us. This would have given the authorities a real headache in deciding the league and would have given their cries for sporting integrity some credibility…. It would have been difficult for us to claim we deserve the title

They couldn’t even do that, so it’s business as usual i.e Celtic will be the champions

If you pray, please pray for the repose of the soul of a wonderful Celtic supporter who passed to his eternal reward yesterday.. Father Michael Clark was a Pallottine Father. A few years after ordination, it was discovered that he had MS. He spent the last thirty five years or more confined to bed. This did not stop him being interested in all things Celtic. By means of TV and radio, he followed his heroes. He learned this love of the bhoys from his father Herbie who was, in his day, a member of the Greenock Celtic Supporters Club.

Father Michael died on the anniversary of his mother’s death. No doubt, she was waiting for him at gates of the Eternal Paradise. Rest in peace, Father Michael, and

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